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ADA in Details
Interpreting the 2010 Americans with Disabilities Act Standards for Accessible Design
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2017
Integrate your designs with compliant access interpretations
ADA in Details provides a visual interpretation of the 2010 Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Standards for a convenient, go-to reference of pertinent scoping, technical requirements, and sourcing information. Architects, designers,...
by Gene R. Cogorno
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2011
AN UP-TO-DATE GUIDE TO GEOMETRIC DIMENSIONING AND TOLERANCING
Written in accordance with the latest revision of the geometric dimensioning and tolerancing (GD&T) stanedard, ASME Y14.5-2009, this book teaches the principles and practical applications of GD&T in an easy-to-understand manner....
Architecture and Interaction
Human Computer Interaction in Space and Place
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2016
Ubiquitous computing has a vision of information and interaction being embedded in the world around us; this forms the basis of this book. Built environments are subjects of design and architects have seen digital elements incorporated into the fabric of buildings as a way of creating environments...
Up and Running with AutoCAD 2011
2D Drawing and Modeling
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2010
Up and Running with AutoCAD 2011 provides an introduction to the fundamental concepts of AutoCAD. The text strips away complexities, both real and perceived, and reduces AutoCAD to easy-to-understand basic concepts. It teaches only what is essential to operating AutoCAD first, thereby immediately...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2012
Mechanical Engineering is defined nowadays as a discipline “which involves the application of principles of physics, design, manufacturing and maintenance of mechanical systems”. Recently, mechanical engineering has also focused on some cutting-edge subjects such as nanomechanics and nanotechnology,...
by Jean Salençon
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2013
Since the middle of the 20th Century yield design approaches have been identified with the lower and upper bound theorem of limit analysis theory – a theory associated with perfect plasticity. This theory is very restrictive regarding the applicability of yield design approaches, which have been...
by Max R. Schmidt
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 4, 2017
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 4, 2017
La Protección Pasiva contra Incendios es la medida primaria integrada a los elementos de construcción de un inmueble para brindar una seguridad y protección contra el fuego inherente, respondiendo contra las llamas, el calor y el humo para mantener los requerimientos fundamentales de compartimentar...
Communicating Creativity
The Discursive Facilitation of Creative Activity in Arts
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
This book provides an extensive and original analysis of the way that written and spoken communication facilitates creative practice in the university art and design studio. Challenging the established view of creativity as a personal attribute which can be objectively measured, the author demonstrates...
Building Structures Illustrated
Patterns, Systems, and Design
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
A new edition of Francis D.K. Ching's illustrated guide to structural design
Structures are an essential element of the building process, yet one of the most difficult concepts for architects to grasp. While structural engineers do the detailed consulting work for a project, architects should...
Aalto, Utzon, Fehn
Three Paradigms of Phenomenological Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
This book examines the work of three seminal Nordic architects - Alvar Aalto, Jørn Utzon and Sverre Fehn - from a phenomenological perspective, utilising the methodology of 'paradigm' (or 'in the manner of''). Roger Tyrrell explains how the approach of each architect is defined by the three sub-frames...
Terms of Appropriation
Modern Architecture and Global Exchange
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
This collection focuses on how architectural material is transformed, revised, swallowed whole, plagiarized, or in any other way appropriated. It charts new territory within this still unexplored yet highly topical area of study by establishing a shared vocabulary with which to discuss, or contest,...
Pamphlet Architecture 29
Ambiguous Spaces
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
Ambiguous Spaces, the newest installment in the Pamphlet Architecture series and a return to Pamphlet's own progressive roots, features the architectural fictions "The Pregnant Island" and "Nuclear Breeding." These two projects develop alternative urban concepts that address the...
Corridors
Passages of Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2019
We spend our lives moving through passages, hallways, corridors, and gangways, yet these channeling spaces do not feature in architectural histories, monographs, or guidebooks. They are overlooked, undervalued, and unregarded, seen as unlovely parts of a building’s infrastructure rather than architecture.
This...
by Danilo Karlicic, Tony Murmu, Michael McCarthy
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
Serving as a review on non-local mechanics, this book provides an introduction to non-local elasticity theory for static, dynamic and stability analysis in a wide range of nanostructures. The authors draw on their own research experience to present fundamental and complex theories that are relevant...